Handelian musical swag

[sawyl]

According to long hallowed local traditions, overtime cannot be spent anything other than inessential luxuries — largely defined in this context as books and music. Thus, on the strength of the last few weeks of extended working, I've picked up:

• Murry Perahia's recording of Brahms' Handel Variations and Op 118–119
• the Dunedin Concort's recording of Handel's Messiah
• the Alan Curtis et al. recording of Alcina
• the next volume Gardiner's Bach Cantatas

Given that I've also recently bought a the Dunedin's version of Esther, I think it's safe to conclude that I'm going through a rather Handelian phase.